Animal-inclosure.



Patented Jan. 3,1911.

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' ATTORNEY.

THE NORRIS FETERS ca, WASHINGTON, o. c,

EVERETT E. JEFFERY, OF FRANKLIN, INDIANA.

ANIMAL-INCLOSURE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 3, 1911.

Application filed December 20, 1909. Serial No. 534,099.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Evnnn'r'r E. JEFFERY, of Franklin, county ofJohnson, and State of Indiana, have invented a certain new and usefulAnimal-Inclosure; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings.

The object of this invention is to provide a convenient and economicalmeans for separating animals in cars or other places where it isdesirable to have different animals in different compartments.

The invention was made with particular reference to separating cattleand swine in stock cars, for when both classes of animals are in thesame car, the swine will be injured by the cattle unless kept separate.

The chief feature of the invention consists in providing a partitionpreferably formed of cables, chains, or the like, with hooked extensionsfrom the sides adapted to be caught over and wrapped around side bars ofthe stock car to hold the same from lateral movement, and yet it can bereadily disengaged, so that the partition will collapse and can be.swung into one side of the car out of the way and used again and again,and for the purpose of preservation, the partition is swung from a barextending longitudinally of the car along one side so that it can heslipped along thereon in any desired place for use.

The nature of the invention will be understood from the accompanyingdrawings and the following description and claim.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal section through aportion of a stock car on the line 11 of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a transversevertical section through the car on the line 22 of Fig. 1.

There is shown in the drawings a stock car 10 of ordinary type havingside bars 11. A rod 12 is secured within the car near the roof andextends longitudinally from end to end thereof, and is also near oneside of the car preferably. Therefore, it is out of the way of thecattle, or anything else that may be placed in the car. The partition 15is a flexible cable or chain partition and it can be made in variousways, the form herein shown consisting of a series of chains arrangedhorizontally and vertically and secured together at their innersections, and at one upper corner there is a chain 16 that is suspendedfrom a link 17 slidable on the rod 12. From each end of the partition 15there are chains 18 secured at one end to the partition with hooks 19 atthe other end thereof. These chains are long enough to be wrapped aroundthe side bar 11 of the car one or more times, and then the hook 19 iscaught into engagement with the partition 15. In the form shown hereinthere are three of these side chains secured at each end of thepartition, but the number may be varied. There should, however, be oneat the top, one at the bottom and one or more between. The wrapping ofthese chains 18 around the bars 11 will prevent the longitudinal slidingmovement of the partition to any appreciable extent, and that will holdthe flexible partition drawn taut, so as to maintain it in its properpartition, and yet the partition will be flexible and to some extentyielding as the animals pitch against it by the bumping of the car.

When not needed to separate animals, the hook chains 18 are alldisengaged from the bars, and the whole separating device is pushed downto one end and corner of the car out of the way and hangs there from therod 12. Hence it will not interfere with filling the car with one classof animals or putting in it melons, lumber, barrels, or other freight.

I do not wish to be limited to the precise details of constructionherein, as they may be varied without departing from the spirit of theinvention.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

The combination with a car or other inclosure for animals, of alongitudinally extending rod in the upper part near one side of saidinclosure, a partition formed of chains, cables or the like so as to beflexible,

means suspended from said rod so as to slide thereon that is connectedwith said partition at the upper side corner thereof, and means at theends of the partition for detachably securing it to the sides of theinclosure.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto affixed my signature in the presenceof the witnesses herein named.

G. H. BOINK,

O. M. MOLAUGHLIN. M t-f

